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A dance-drama staging at the Alexandrinsky combining two eras and two love stories. The 1820s frame: Gogol was told an anecdote that later became the basis of his novella The Overcoat. The central character — a minor clerk — meets his first love, loses her, and continues with the hope she may one day return. In Russian; the dance-drama format works partly regardless of language for readers of The Overcoat.